Nathan James kicked off Superstar as Lloyd Webber slams ‘Twitter ego’

Nathan James has been eliminated from Superstar after
Andrew Lloyd Webber accused him of ‘loving himself’ and chose to save Roger Wright.

Nathan James was rumoured to have been acting like a diva backstage on Superstar (Picture: ITV)

Only four contestants now remain in the ITV1 contest, which is searching for the lead role in musical Jesus Christ Superstar.

James and Wright found themselves in the bottom two on Monday night after receiving the lowest number of viewer votes, both singing Love Changes Everything from Lloyd Webber’s musical Aspects Of Love in a bid to stay in the show.

Despite it being his second time in the firing line, Wright was saved by the judges once more with the musical director saying: ‘Despite a fantastic performance [from Nathan], I’ve got to save Roger.’

Nathan James provoked the ire of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Picture: ITV)

Wright, 41, from east London, reacted by saying: ‘This is emotional,’ adding that his secret was to ‘sing from your heart, that’s all you can do’.

Though he was impressed by James’ performance, Lloyd Webber criticised the 23-year-old’s ego and incessant tweeting, saying: ‘Nathan, your voice is amazing but I think you need to love the song more than you love yourself.

‘Why do you keep tweeting the things you keep tweeting? I worry what you’re going to be like in rehearsal and why did you tweet a picture of yourself wearing a crown of thorns?’

James tweeted a picture of himself as Jesus (Picture: Twitter)

Dawn French quipped that he might be better suited to the role of Judas.

Earlier in the show, the finalists performed with Gary Barlow, who joined them for a rendition of Take That hit Greatest Day.

James said of the performance: ‘When we found out that we were going to be singing with Gary Barlow in rehearsals – that was a milestone in all of our journeys.’

Roger Wright made it through to the Superstar final (Picture: ITV)

When asked by host Amanda Holden who he thought would now go on and win the competition, he added: ‘That’s really tough. But just because he’s my best friend and he’s supported me through this, thick and thin – I’m going to say Ben.’